River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29
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Contrai and the Other GA the Minnesota
4 Northwestern Road.
HURLED FROM THE TRACK
| ASHLAND, WIS, Dec 21-The Wisconsin
/ Central passenger tain W Itch lefg Ashland
A. 5 o'clock Thursday nigut was dsraile at
mIdn ght by broken rail in the heart of
| the great pine forest between Fiiield aud
/ Phillips, and badly wrecked The sleeping
/ ear and first and second coaches were all
buried from The track There were sixty
| passengers sboard, OF whom one-August
MantOi, of ButleInut--was Led, and near
/ ly all the others were more or less seri-
/ Ously hurt Among the injured are these:
4 Conductor j. H. eenfed, leg broken aud
Internally hurt; Will probably die. Thomas
/ Mooney, Of Ashland, terribly bruised; VIII
/ sover. Thomas Seine der, Of Ashland, head
4 badly cut and body scratched: George Clemens.
4 of Duluth his wfe and three children, all
badly bruised Mr.. Mahoney, OF Ashland, severe
4 cuts Mrs. Sullivan. scalp cut and otherwise
/ seriously hurt; w. b Baker, OF Bancroft, three
( Fingers cut on; John NJ Dillingham;, OF Ashland,
slightly hurt; Mr.. Connolly, Of Chippewa Falls;
Victor Mason. b. used.
The others hurt IRE not seriously injured
4 The train was travelling at a high rate of
speed at the I me of the acc dent. and the
( ears ran into the woods aud were piled in
+ hep The accident happened at a sharp
down-grade curve in most desolate reg ON,
there beng nothing on the inc for miles
about except the unin labited pine blrrena
August Mantoi, who was killed, atteml ted
( to get out Of a window feet first Just as The
day coach caresned and was literally torn
I to pieces His body was in such position
under he coach that it could not be taken
put till late in the day. His head was all
I that was vsib e.
The cars Immediately took fire. but by
The prompt work of Superintendent Wol-
ford. who escaped from he sleeper with
Mr., Sullivan, most horrible dis-s.er was
,~even ed Snow was abundant, and was
freely used. Many other sieeping-car pas
Sc igers aided IN the work, at ire in their
n.gnt-clo hes Engineer Frank Calkins and
his Lreman gave prompt aid TO the impris-
Oned people, many of whom were either
pinioned or cut off from escape, and in
danger of being cremated.
TUMnIINa CARS,
FREEPoRT L., Dc. "a "A terrible dis
aster happened to the Minnesota & North
western train which passed through here
yesterday morning en- route for the
East with a large excur ion party
bound for Canadian points About
thirteen miles IRON here, ne-r German VAL
ley Station the train encountered broken
"a II, and the cars, seven in number,
were all hurled down the twelve-fOot en-
bankment on either side. One of the cars
was thrown fully fifty feet and turne COM
Pile ely over endways All the other cars
but one We're thrown over on their sides
down the b NIX There were nearly $50
passengers on board the train, and al
though no one was killed, thirty of them
were wounded, several dangerously
One of the coaches caught fire, but the
flames were ex .ingushed by the train men
before they gained any Roadway. The
wreck was cleared away last night, and
those who were able to stand the Journey
we're taken through The loss to the rail-
road company W Il probably aggregate near
ly $780, 1000 The badly injured are being
cared for at the neighboring farm- houses
Engineer L d Holder OF Chicago, had
oh rye of the locomotive. He says that the
train WIS going at the rate of twenty-five
miles an hour At the spot whore the
wreck occurred the track crosses creek,
and also makes a sharp curve This,
coupled with the ct that it is down grade,
confirms the r.ilroad men m the opinion
that spread rail was the probable cause OF
the disaster